Breech-loading fire-arm



U-.I-I. ETEBRUK. Breeoh Loading; Fire Arm.

Patented July 27,1880.

PH En. wAsmNamN u c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. EUTEBRCUK, oE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,409, dated July 27,1880.

i Application led December 3, i879.

To all whom tt may concern:

Beitknown that I, CHARLES H. EUTEEROUK, ot' Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inBreech-Loading Fire-Arms, of which the following is a full, clear,concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making` a part hereof, in which- Figure lis a verticallengthwise section, and Fig. 2 a section on line y y of Fig. l. Fig. 3shows a part of the breech-piece in dotted lines, with the top snap andhammer in full lines.

My invention consists of a novel construction of the breech-piece of asin gle,barreled gun, my object being to make a single-barreledbreechloading gun with a central hammer and top snap in the same line,which is simple, cheap, and very compact in its construction, and yetstrong and durable and not likely to get out of order.

In the drawings, A is the breech-piece. This breech-piece is slottedfrom top to bottom, as shown, to'receive a central hammer, B, and isalso slotted across this central slot, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, toreceive the locking-bolt O and its connecting-arm o2. The locking-boltO,by which the barrel is locked in place, slides in this slot in thebreech-piece A, and is moved forward and back by the tumbler c, which isactuated by the finger-lever c.

The bolt C, it will be seen, is in front ofthe central slot in thebreech-piece A, and the tumblercat the rear, with the hammer B betweenthem. Io admit of this compact arrangement I make the bolt C with a Sidearm, c2, which extends back of the hammer and connects the bolt C andtumbler c. This arm is shown asa separate piece from bolt G, and is bestmade so for covenience in putting both in place.

There is nothing novel in these operative parts per se, and I havemerely transferred them from double-barreled guns and arranged them, asdescribed, so asto iit in and work within the slotted breech-piece thatI have provided, the novelty of my device being in the structure of thebreech-piece.

A breech-piece for a single-barreled gun has never heretofore been socontrived as to accommodate a central hammer and top snap, thedifficulty being to get the hammer and top snap in line, as they are notin double-barreled guns, and still to provide for the working' of thelocking-bolt and other operative parts within the breech-piece.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim as of my inventionis- The breech-piece A of a single-barreled gun, slotted in twodirections, as describedthat is to say, horizontally and verticallythevertical slot being in the center, whereby the hammer and top snap maybe placed in line and still the operating parts accommodated, all as setforth.

C. H. EUTEBROUK. Witnesses J. E. MAYNADIER, J. It. SNOW.

